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    "id": 701399,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I apologise and withdraw. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the report on the appeals for transfer of functions by various county governments is a very important report. When I was in the Committee on Devolved Government, I raised it when we met the then Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Devolution and Planning, Ms. Anne Waiguru. In some of our very early meetings, I asked her when the Government will implement Transitional and Consequential Provision No.17 that provides that provincial administration will be reformed or restructured to conform to the system of devolution within five years of the coming into effect of the Constitution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if I were to ask the Government today how the system called provincial administration has been restructured to conform to the system of devolution, I will probably be told that now we have regional commissioners instead of provincial commissioners but that is all because the chiefs and assistant chiefs are still there. Nobody ever said that the chiefs and assistant chiefs should lose their jobs but the transitional and consequential provisions provide that the system of provincial administration should be restructured to conform with devolution. One of the reasons why we have insecurity in the rural areas and counties is because the function of security which was an important function of the provincial administration has not been restructured to conform with devolution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the County Governments Act is very detailed in the extent to which devolution should be structured. It begins from the foundation of devolution in the village where it provides that there shall be a village council and village administrator. If you read the County Governments Act, the functions of the village council are so fundamental to security that if we were to implement devolution to the letter, the role of chiefs and assistant chiefs would have to be structured to conform with devolution. At the moment, many counties have not established devolution in line with the County Governments Act. Even if they have, the functioning of the foundation of devolution at the village level is weak. In Tanzania, if you are in a neighbourhood, the system of security and intelligence will know that you are a bona fide visitor whose security must be guaranteed and protected and you are not somebody who is in that particular neighbourhood for ill intention. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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